Example sentences of "[verb] for several years " in BNC.

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1 Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years .
2 The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East .
3 Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements .
4 And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years .
5 Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades .
6 Usually ground into a powder before use Pepper Sauces p101/ Hot condiments made from a variety of chilli peppers and often matured for several years .
7 The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham .
8 This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six .
9 Because of the slow diffusion rates into and through the stratosphere , even if all emissions of CFCs into the atmosphere ceased , stratospheric concentration of CFCs would continue to increase for several years .
10 What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press .
11 But one of these , the Manas ( ‘ by far the most important wildlife reserve in the Indian subcontinent ’ — IUCN Pig and Peccaries Specialist Group ) , has for several years been in the hands of armed rebels .
12 ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’
13 Contracts will usually be let for several years .
14 Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years .
15 The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing .
16 Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) .
17 This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) .
18 ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief .
19 However , the catering department ( which comprises the customer restaurant , tea-room , coffee bar and staff canteen ) has suffered for several years from higher than average food cost percentages and labour turnover .
20 Q I 'm 34 and have suffered for several years from intermittent burning pains in my knees , which often keep me awake .
21 In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular .
22 Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years .
23 But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due .
24 This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying .
25 There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years .
26 Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years .
27 Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them .
28 The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women .
29 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
30 This is another area where liability may not emerge for several years , as in the case of industrial disease .
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